God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life.

Men accept without questioning that this world is real and important and worthwhile. This is faith. Philosophy is the ongoing questioning of this faith.

This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion familiar. I must state it in my own way, although one in vain seeks to attain novelty in illustrating so frequently described a view.

So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.

Memory and hope constantly incite us to the extensions of the self which play so large a part in our daily life.

Religious faith, indeed, relates to that which is above us, but it must arise from that which is within us.

God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world.